OT: General knowledge test #498A

[wire chief]

It happens that as I type, I am listening to Cat Stevens, a fellow our gov't won't let visit. Sheesh.

Please do no research nor reprint questions.

1..This morning I got up when(?) Gary U. S. Bonds stopped dancing.

2..Which country tested an A-bomb in the Sahara in 1960?

3..The 2 seas that separate 2 continents at Turkey?

4.."I've shamed myself with lies. My cruelty has punished me, and now I'm _______ ___."

5..A Euro tourist center on the Reuss River with a huge lion statue.

6..Pierre Lecrede and August Clouteau establish what American city in 1764?

7..Identify Kevin Mitnick.

8..In 1804 what was the fate of our frigate Philadelphia?

9..Dr. Walter Caruthers invents what?

10.."Long johns" are traced to one particular person.

11..Only 1 southern city(?) did not secede.

12..The #1 mcbb team(?) just lost to..?.

13..She(?) saw Russia from her back yard.

 

[geordi]

2. France
3. Mediterranean and Black Seas
6. If it's what I'm thinking of, St. Louis. But I think it was Pierre Leclede. Leclede's Landing in St. Louis used to have the best bar in the country. Muddy Waters.
12. Villanova lost to Xavier last night.

 

[pinotbear]

13. Sarah Palin.. actually, Tina Fey portraying Sarah Palin, on SNL

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. A quarter to three
2. Israel
3. Caspian and Black Seas
6. Pierre SD
10. Levi Strauss
11. New Orleans
11. Mobile
13. Sarah Palin

 

[wire chief]

3.. The Mediterranean? The Caspian? Phooey.

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. Black and Aegean Seas

 

[ed4ourgirls]

3. Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea
5. Lucerne, Switzerland (Been there, seen that)

 

[lne001]

1.. A Quarter to 3:00 (AM)

2.. France

3.. Mediterranean & Black

7.. Notorious computer hacker

13.. Sarah Palin

 

[hoopingcrane]

2..Guessing France.

3..Black and Maramar

8..just finished a book on this- grounded in the water at Tripoli harbor, abandoned and recovered by the Tripolitans and then blown up later by the Americans

11..New Orleans?

13..I know but refuse to type her name.

 

[wire chief]

4.."Sprinting arid" is on REQUIEM FOR THE ROCKERS.

9..Typically only DuPont Corp since the '40's is cited as inventor.

10..This long ago pugilist wore them.

11..That which allows doors to be thrown open. (If it were New Orleans, would not that be common knowledge?)

 

[ed4ourgirls]

10. From your hint I'll guess John L. Sullivan (Last bare knuckle heavyweight champ)

 

[wire chief]

1..VAUC & Ine, continuing their careers of voyeurism, look in my window to note when I get up.

2..Geordi, ine & hoop with radioactive diseases.

3..Ed4 comes through when others can't find their sea-legs.

4..Neil Young, RUNNING DRY.

5..The peripatetic Ed4, turned down for Swiss citizenship, so he's back.

6..Geordi, correcting my spelling, perfectionist as he is. I bet his wife hates him.

7.. Guy was eventually found and jailed, but that didn't help recover ine's cherished collection.

8..Hoop is glad that the US made use of his dynamite cache.

9..Nylon, me buckos.

10..Ed4 challenged him, but has only concussions to show for it.

11..The Union had a sizeable armed forces base in Key West, most discouraging for would-be separatists.

12..Geordi, being traitorous to wcbb.

13..Hoop reminds me of Rumpole of the Baily, who referred to his wife as, "She who must be obeyed."
Pinot, VAUC & ine are less...um, reverent.